Uncharacteristic Chopper in the East Midlands, page 2

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reply posted on 18-5-2011 @ 06:36 AM by oldgoat

They're probably prepping to hunt down the crop circle makers

reply posted on 18-5-2011 @ 07:56 AM by teapot

Within short drive of Marham/Lakenheath/Mildenhall.

Monday night approx 10pm, lots of cloud cover. Every 5-10 mins, sound of low flying aircraft including one maybe two chinnock or a couple of single rotor choppers (could not see anything, nor tell whether coming in to land or taking off). This continued for about an hour and twenty minutes. Then last night, again low flying aircraft, did not hear any chopper blades, less frequent from sundown until after 11pm. Again, heavy cloud cover = no visuals.

reply posted on 19-5-2011 @ 06:07 PM by Scope and a Beam

reply to post by teapot

Experienced the exact same thing near Peterborough.

reply posted on 20-5-2011 @ 06:40 AM by Soshh

I snapped an Apache [AH1] the other day. It was flying around in circles for about 30 minutes or so. Sorry about the quality, it didn't convert very well. West Midlands here btw

reply posted on 21-5-2011 @ 04:35 PM by tommyjo

Guys,

You do realise that there are major exercises going on at the moment in the UK?

www.mod.uk...

In order to get the heads-up on the activity then view or join the following aviation enthusiast forums.

forums.airshows.co.uk...

forums.airshows.co.uk...

www.fightercontrol.co.uk...

It still puzzles me that people get so excited about witnessing routine exercise activity and think that the military are up to something?

TJ

reply posted on 21-5-2011 @ 04:52 PM by teapot

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Does not explain massive movements of aircraft at night and above cloud cover. Though I was thinking some of this movement may have been part of the men and equipment exit from Iraq.

And as a sidebar, the military exists only to entertain us?

reply posted on 22-5-2011 @ 05:31 PM by StevenDye

Theyve been around for a while, I saw two of those helicopters fly low over Irhtlingborough (Near Wellingborough) about this time last year. So, its not new for them to come here at least.

reply posted on 26-5-2011 @ 07:08 PM by Scope and a Beam

At first I thought this was nothing but a little odd. But it's starting to get annoying if nothing else. There is literally not a single day that goes past when low flying army type aircraft fly around above my house and the surrounding areas. I know they're training or whatever it is but surely it isn't needed every day?

Even today as the sky was a blanket of dark grey and rain, there were Apache helicopters flying around, I saw two and heard them all day.

reply posted on 27-5-2011 @ 06:28 AM by tommyjo

Originally posted by teapot
reply to post by tommyjo

Does not explain massive movements of aircraft at night and above cloud cover. Though I was thinking some of this movement may have been part of the men and equipment exit from Iraq.

And as a sidebar, the military exists only to entertain us?

It it called night flying. Lakenheath and Mildenhall units are regular night flyers and especially the Special Operations Group at Mildenhall. Again check out the the likes of Fighter Control aviation forum. Note the monitoring of movements on the likes of Plane Plotter and SBS, etc. Also the monitoring of the Air Traffic Control communications on the radio section.

www.mildenhall.af.mil...

If you had Plane Plotter you would be able to monitor the movements in your region.

www.coaa.co.uk...

RAF Marham will also conduct regular night flying with their Tornado GR4s.

TJ

edit on 27-5-2011 by tommyjo because: Additional info added

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